Amazon CloudWatch now supports native OpenTelemetry (OTel) metrics in public preview, enabling you to send metrics directly using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) without custom conversion logic or additional tooling. You can now combine your custom OpenTelemetry metrics with AWS vended metrics from over 70 services and query them using PromQL — no additional agents or code changes required.
With native OTel support, a team running microservices on Amazon EKS and on-premises servers can now send OTel metrics from both environments directly to CloudWatch. They can correlate application-level metrics like order processing latency from their on-premises services with EKS pod CPU utilization and Application Load Balancer request counts, then use PromQL to build unified dashboards and alarms that span their entire infrastructure. CloudWatch anomaly detection works with OTel metrics, automatically identifying unusual patterns without requiring you to set static thresholds. Query Studio, a new console experience for PromQL, lets you write queries, explore metrics, create alarms, and build dashboards directly in the CloudWatch console.
Native OpenTelemetry metrics support is available in public preview in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Europe (Ireland). There is no charge for OpenTelemetry metrics or querying during preview. To learn more, see the Amazon CloudWatch OpenTelemetry documentation.
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